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Whitsuntide. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Whitsuntide Forms (see also TIDE sb.): 3 White-sune tide, wit sonentid, 3–4 witeson(e)-, 3–6 Wytson-, 4 whitson(e)-, Witsun-, 4–6 Witson-, Witte-, 5 Qhythson-, 5–6 Whytson-, (Witsenstyde), 5–8 Whitson-, 7– Whitsuntide. β. 4 Wissen-, 5 whisson(e)-, Whysson(e-, Whyssen-, 6 Whyson-, 9 dial. Whissontide. [f. WHITSUN + TIDE sb.] The season of Whit Sunday; Whit Sunday and the days immediately following.

1 c. 1205.  Lay., 31524. Hit ilomp an ane time to þan Whitesune tide [later text Witsontime] þat be king hehte of londen.

2 1297.  R. Glouc. (Rolls), 3111. Aȝen þe feste of witesontyd.

3 c. 1330.  Rouland & V. (Abbotsf. Club), 16. At Ester, at Wissentide, And at seyn Iames day…, And in Yole.

4 c. 1440.  Alphabet of Tales, 76. On a tyme when þe grete Emperour Henrie … held his whisson-tyde.

5 1448.  Paston Lett., I. 70. Harry Goneld hath browth to me xls.,… and he seyth I xal have more or Qhythson tyd.

6 1484.  Caxton, Chivalry, v. 52. To make and adoube a knyȝt it apperteyneth the day of some grete feste as Crystemas, Eester, Whitsontyd.

7 1553.  in Sir W. Parker, Hist. Long Melford (1873), 97. At Witsenstyde.

8 1600.  Marston, etc., Jack Drum’s Entert., I. (1601), A 3 b. Tis Whitson-tyde, and we must frolick it.

9 1710.  Steele, Tatler, No. 178, ¶ 3. We wish … all our Customers a merry Whitsuntide.

10 1859.  Tennyson, Marr. Geraint, 145. Arthur on the Whitsuntide before Held court at old Caerleon upon Usk.

11 1916.  G. E. Buckle, Life of Disraeli, IV. i. 9. After Whitsuntide the general debate was resumed.

12   † b.  Used in early versions of N. T. for PENTECOST 1. Obs. (Cf. WHIT SUNDAY 1 b.)

13 1382.  Wyclif, 1 Cor. xvi. 8. I schal dwelle at Effecy, til to Witsuntide [Tindale, vntill witsontyde; 1551 wytsontyde].

14   c.  attrib.

15 1609.  B. Jonson, Silent Wom., III. i. I would haue you get your Whitsontide-velvet-cap.

16 1611.  Coryat, Crudities, 9. A Whitsuntide foole … wearing a long coate, wherein there were many seuerall peeces of cloth of diuers colours.

17 1687.  in Jrnl. Friends Hist. Soc. (1915), Oct., 182. Shee is willinge to sett out of London, the next 2nd day, after whitsuntide weeke soe called is ouer.

18 c. 1755.  in B. Ward, Hist. St. Edmund’s Coll. (1893), App. 303. On all working days in ye Xmas and Whitsuntide Vacations, ye Scholars study at ye rate of an hour and a Quarter each day.

19 1916.  G. E. Buckle, Life of Disraeli, IV. i. 7. The Whitsuntide recess [of Parliament] was approaching.

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